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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-22042: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-22042: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/01/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in FFmpeg 4.2 due to a memory leak is affected by: memory leak in the link_filter_inouts function in libavfilter/graphparser.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg4

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